OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Friends of a suspect shot by KCK police and his wife who he allegedly shot say they had a rocky, short-lived relationship.

Deputies in Arkansas located the body of 51-year-old Sylvia Pearson late Tuesday.

Some of the last images of her husband Charles Pearson came from surveillance cameras Tuesday at a Village West motel. He told the clerk he'd killed his wife of two years. Minutes later, he'd die in a shootout nearby with KCK police.

But a traumatic death years ago might have had a big impact on their marriage.

Shortly after they were married in 2017, Sylvia Pearson learned her son Cameron Hooks was killed at a Lawrence motel. That's when Denise Skaggs, who attended the couple's wedding, said the honeymoon period appeared to be over.

"She just said Charles was no support to her during that time," Skaggs said.

Pearson's best man also called the relationship toxic.

"Unfortunately two great people don't always go well together, and I think that's what the situation was here," Clinton Lee Jr. said.

After Pearson was arrested for breaking a mirror in the couple's Lenexa home, Sylvia eventually moved out.